Santa Clara, CA – August 23, 2010 – Extreme DA today announced the hiring of Emre Tuncer as vice-president of product engineering and applications to lead the company’s development of new products and to ensure customer success with its leading integrated circuit (IC) timing analysis solutions.

“I’m very pleased to have Emre join the executive team at Extreme DA,” said Mustafa Celik, Extreme DA president and CEO. “Emre’s proven success in product development and delivery is a welcome addition to our team and his contributions will be vital in developing new products that provide the features and performance our customers need as process geometries continue to shrink. His leadership will benefit our customers around the world.”

About Emre Tuncer

Tuncer was most recently vice-president and architect at Elastix, and brings over 15 years experience in product development and physical design experience for the delivery of innovative products. Previously, Tuncer was a chief technologist and vice-president of engineering at Magma Design Automation, where he managed an international team of developers and product engineers. Before joining Magma, he was at Monterey Design Systems, an EDA startup developing physical design tools. He has a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BSEE from Middle East Technical University in Turkey.